• Journal of Korean Society of Forest Science
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• v.96 no.6
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• pp.705-713
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• 2007

The purpose of this study was to understand the organization and the forestry household income applied the result of 2005 Forestry Census and the Economic survey of Forest household in Korea. As a result of the analysis, there are 97,108 households of a forester in korea 2005. Full time forestry household occupied 7,925 families (8.2%), part time forestry household occupied 88,183 families (91.8%). Therefore, the most household of a forester is part time forestry household in korea. The average people of the household of a forester family is 2.7 people. The age of forest manager are sixties nearly, over sixty years old forest manager occupied 51,505 people (53%). The forest management period of forestry households is more than 6 months in 39,229 families (40.4%), less than 1 month in 7,216 families (7.4%). The average area of forestry households owning forest is 4.6ha. According to the type of business, logging families possesses 19.5 ha. The mean income of forestry households is \27,148,000. One of them, forestry income is \6,529,000, which occupied 24.1%. Furthermore, forestry households less than \5,000,000 forest product sales performance occupied 51,633 families, which is 64%. Forest operating costs is \6,566,000 mean per family. In addition, the number of a forestry household resident villages is 11,829 villages, where is 32.8% of whole villages in korea. There are 2,979 villages where reside forestry household in gyeongsangbuk-do.

• Journal of agriculture & life science
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• v.50 no.4
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• pp.45-57
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• 2016

The average income of forestry household was only 54.3% of urban workers's and 67.6% of farms household's income based on the data from statistics Korea in 2012. This indicates that forestry, which is a labor-intensive primary industry, has the limitation for creating added value. On the other hand, the demands for forest healing and forest experiential program have been continuously increased with new lifestyle focusing on the quality of life and increased leisure time. Therefore, it is necessary to establish comprehensive policies to increase added value except forestry to respond forest demands. The project utilizing forest healing can be on of solutions to meet forest demands. Thus, this research intends to investigate an economic revitalization plan for mountain villages with forest healing. The characteristics of forest healing facilities and contents of forest healing programs were examined through internet searching, fields surveys, and expert interviews. Total 186 concepts, 8 categories, and 24 subcategories were derived from raw data of surveys. The application process of forest healing was also provided to encourage local economy of mountain areas. This research offers application procedure of the forest healing for regional economic vitalization in Mountain Villages interviews using grounded theory by Strauss and Corbin(1988) as well as NVio11. This research contributes to prepare the base of future quantitative studies by providing strategies and suggestions for the application plans of forest healing programs. In addition, this research offers basic data for the policies to establish and manage forest healing villages.